A South Lake Tahoe man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly possessing stolen property. Eric Beaman, 26, was arrested at a residence on Armstrong Avenue on Aug. 13, which is also where officers said they recovered items they suspect were stolen from “several vacation rental burglaries.” Police have not bothered to say when these burglaries occurred, […]
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Updated 5:15pm: Power has been restored. —- Power is out along much of the West Shore because a tree service company dropped a tree onto a power line. Liberty Utilities crews are on site, but have no estimated time of when the lights will come back on. The outage occurred just before 3pm Aug. 14 […]
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Police arrested a South Lake Tahoe man today in the stabbing death of a 57-year-old woman. Sean-Paul Andrew MacIntire, 32, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Shirley Gordon. The two are related, but police aren’t saying how. They don’t even know where Gordon resided. MacIntire’s mother, who was at the Wildwood […]
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By Barry Eberling, Fairfield Daily Republic State Sen. Lois Wolk has proposed a $5.6 billion state water bond, one that includes no money for the controversial proposal to build twin tunnels to take water exports under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Instead, Wolk, D-Vacaville, proposes to spend $1.5 billion on safe drinking water projects, $1.8 billion […]
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The American Fire has burned 3,050 acres in a remote area of the Tahoe National Forest. Smoke from it is drifting east and causing irritation for some people who live in the Lake Tahoe Basin, Truckee, Reno and other locales. Officials this morning said moderate fire behavior was observed overnight, with the north end of […]
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By Brad Plumer, Washington Post The average Californian uses about 33 percent less electricity at home than the average American in the rest of the country. That shouldn’t be overly surprising, given the state’s mild weather. What is surprising, though, is that California’s electricity use has basically stayed flat for the past four decades, in […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee Concerned by a major development proposal, a group of Squaw Valley activists say they have more than enough signatures needed to start the process of turning the tiny ski resort community into the new city of Olympic Valley. The process is expected to cost in excess of $100,000 and take […]
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By Olga Kharif, Bloomberg In February, six students on snowshoes battled as much as 12 feet of snow to penetrate into the heart of the American River basin. Moving through dense forests and meadows, they mounted 90 iPhone-sized machines, designed to measure everything from soil moisture to temperature and relative humidity, onto 16-foot poles that […]
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South Lake Tahoe City Council members did not find out about a loop road related meeting until Monday – two days before the event. Lake Tahoe News has never been formally told about it. And this is a public meeting. AIM Consulting sent an email to the Citizens Review Committee on Aug. 12 reminding the […]
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By CBS-13 A woman and her two children shared a home with a murderer and didn’t realize it until later. Now that killer is accused of striking again. She describes him as odd, but charming and charismatic. The worst she thought was he could have been a good con man. When cops knocked on Theresa […]
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